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Old 12-10-2004, 06:44 PM
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taking excessively long!

Since the moment I turn my PC on until something
appears on the screen is taking excessively long!
Why and how can I solve that?
Win XP Pro user
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Old 12-10-2004, 06:58 PM
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maybe your BIOS isnt set to boot from the HDD first.
go into ur BIOS and make sure you have the HDD set as the first boot device.
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Old 12-11-2004, 10:36 AM
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Also check your prefetch settings, if you have many programs on the taskbar, quicklaunch, check their properties, look for "/prefetch:1" this makes the program load upon start up saving time when its executed for the first time, too many of these cause slow loads
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